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  • Intolerable Bishop by Brooklyn Cross

    Intolerable Bishop by Brooklyn Cross

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The arrogant bishop feels superior, but it will race the fastest to its downfall. I had been looking forward to summer break since learning I was going home for a month. Not only would I see my Aunt Nadia and my best friend Lizzy, but I wasn’t traveling alone.But being home wasn’t at all what I thought it would be…I’m drowning in mysteries and have to find the answers or die trying...
    Categorized as:
    sports  dark  contemporary  new adult  mafia  length-long
  • Easy to Fall by W. Winters

    Easy to Fall by W. Winters

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Willow Winters comes the epic conclusion to the heart-wrenching, edge-of-your-seat gripping, romantic suspense, Hard to Love series.With her I was always on the highest high. That's why it was so easy to fall. I never stood a chance without her. The two of us were made for one another. It's as simple as that. The world could try to rip us apart, but it would fail...
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  • Destined: Satan's Rebels MC Book 2 by Kira Johns

    Destined: Satan's Rebels MC Book 2 by Kira Johns

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    After surviving hell not once, but twice, Jade Moore is once again living, but her nights are filled with torture as she relives her time with the Condemned Warriors again and again. The only person capable of chasing away those demons is Viper, the man she has fallen deeply in love with. He is not just her hero, he is her destiny...
  • Path to Retaliation by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Path to Retaliation by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Under-the-radar boxer Cameron West loves to get through life in a series of humor and mischief. He'll be there to charm your panties off and give you a good laugh about it right after. But it's true when they say that the happiest people often hold the darkest secrets...
  • Deserved by Kira Johns

    Deserved by Kira Johns

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Five years after leaving Rockingham, Jade Moore is still trying to move on. Easier said than done when your heart lies in your hometown. She finds friendship with a man who bears a dark secret, one that could destroy her. Shadow has spent the last five years in misery over losing Jade. He still loves her, but knows he lost his chance...
  • Six Degrees of Separation by Taylor V. Donovan

    Six Degrees of Separation by Taylor V. Donovan

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    *WARNING FROM THE AUTHOR: By Degrees is an ensemble serial with continuing story lines. Six Degrees of Separation is the second installment, and it must be read after Six Degrees of Lust. Thanks. In the sequel to Six Degrees of Lust, F.B.I. team leader Samuel Shaughnessy and bar manager Machlan O’Bannon are exploring a new phase in their non-relationship...
  • Roma Queen by Callie Hart

    Roma Queen by Callie Hart

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “The stunning conclusion to the Roma Royals Duet Series. The very best of Callie Hart. Hold on tight, because this is one hell of a ride!” Son. Lover. Protector. KING. I’ve been many things to many people over the course of my life, but that title – King – has always been a tough pill to swallow...
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    alpha male  contemporary  dark  length-medium  m-f
  • Cooper by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Cooper by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Cooper and Elizabeth Townsend are from two very different worlds - she's an attorney and he's an outlaw biker. At first, she was just an escape he needed, but now she's everything to him, even though their relationship remains a secret.After his world is blown apart, Cooper is no longer the same man he was before...
  • Followed by the Dark by Danah Logan

    Followed by the Dark by Danah Logan

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Dark follows everywhere. She used to be The Bulldog; but she lost her bite. He buried the one person he should've protected; now, his life is driven by anger and revenge. Together they're toxic for each other, but neither can deny that something is there. FBTD is an age gap, enemies to lovers dark romance.★ The complete blurb will be revealed with the cover...
  • Losing Traction by Amo Jones

    Losing Traction by Amo Jones

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    My name is Phoebe Rendon. Growing up as the only girl surrounded by the Sinful Souls MC community has never been easy. Outside of the club, I had no life because my brother and his two psycho best friends kept tabs on me. My only out was racing at Point Hellers, the largest and steepest drift mountain in Westbeach, California. Cars were my life, and eight years later, that hasn’t changed...
  • Unlawful Justice by K.C. Lynn, K. Langston

    Unlawful Justice by K.C. Lynn, K. Langston

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Seek the truth and you will find justice. The peaceful town of Harmony Falls, Texas, has been rocked to its core by an unspeakable crime. One that harbors revenge and injustice. Schoolteacher Olivia Bradshaw can’t remember what happened that horrific night, but it’s easy to see the effect it’s had on those around her...
  • Vile by Lulu Waters

    Vile by Lulu Waters

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 15 ratings
    EVERLEE VERA This isn’t the life I’m meant to live—stuck on the arm of a rich asshole while he has a pissing contest with other rich assholes. They’re all puppets, playing a dutiful role that condemns them to hell until death do they part. Hatred pushes me forward. Lust fuels me. And there is only one guy who checks both: Holden Van. My boyfriend’s enemy. The guy who flusters me beyond anything...
  • Amos y mazmorras: Segunda parte by Lena Valenti

    Amos y mazmorras: Segunda parte by Lena Valenti

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Chegou a hora de encarar o tão aguardado torneio Dragões e Masmorras DS. Entregue-se aos combates. Liberte seus desejos. Na busca pela irmã desaparecida, a agente Cleo Connelly conseguiu se infiltrar no ultrassecreto torneio de práticas BDSM, o Dragões e Masmorras DS...
  • Celt. by London Miller

    Celt. by London Miller

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Welcome to the Den ... Six minutes is all he needs to get a job done … Kyrnon “Celt” Murphy is one of the best thieves in the world. After all, his childhood was spent with a caravan of Irish Travelers that taught him everything he knows...
  • The Way We Are by Shandi Boyes

    The Way We Are by Shandi Boyes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Seven years in heaven awarded me seven years in hell. I’ve admired Savannah Fontane since I saw her whizzing down our street on her hot pink bike with rainbow tassels taped on the handlebars. I was in awe someone so small could ride without training wheels, I asked my mom to remove mine that same afternoon. Savannah drew a rainbow heart on my cast the very next day...
  • Bastard in It by Chelsea Camaron

    Bastard in It by Chelsea Camaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rags to riches, this is one passion-fueled ride.RedRaised the son of a Hellion, born with the blood of a villain, I wear my patch with pride.Earned, never given.Frank "Tank" Oleander gave me his name, his club, and his respect. I earned my cut, my place, and even this ride as the son of another.I am Kenneth "Red" Oleander.I find comfort in chasing skirts, fixing cars, and riding the open road...
  • Master of Games by Sienna Snow

    Master of Games by Sienna Snow

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He was my obsession. Haunting my dreams, reminding me of my past. He was the one whose heart I destroyed. Pierce Lykaios was everything I could want: captivating, cunning, and controlled. He understood my darkest desires and took pleasure in feeding my every craving. And when I walked back into his world, it was my fault for letting the first touch lead to a second. And a third...
  • Deranged: A Dark MC Romance by Bella J., Lori Whitwam

    Deranged: A Dark MC Romance by Bella J., Lori Whitwam

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    ~ DERANGED is the third book in the American Street Kings series from International Bestselling Author Bella J. The complete series is available now! ~ Temptation. It's a powerful thing.It possesses you. Corrupts you. Turns a pure soul into a reckless beast.Once it has you in its clutches, you can't escape it. It won't let go, not untilit perverts everything innocent...
  • Possessive Devil by B. B. Hamel

    Possessive Devil by B. B. Hamel

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Give me what I want and I'll obey.Calvino is a nightmare wrapped in a million dollar suit. He has eyes like the black between stars and his toned body is a sculptor's dream.And someone in his family murdered my cousin.When Calvino catches me drugging and stealing from his brother, my life hangs in the balance...
  • Resilient Queen by Amber Vant

    Resilient Queen by Amber Vant

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I never wanted this. Never asked for any of it. The corrupted, chaos of the past is playing catch-up with the present and nothing is as it seems. Everyone wants something. Me? All I want is the truth. I thought this was the end, but it turns out it’s only the beginning. The basis for a much darker twist of fate. Secrets are starting to unravel; relationships have grown fractured...
  • When Angels Seek Chaos by Addison Jane

    When Angels Seek Chaos by Addison Jane

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Angelo Moretti was a man I should have stayed far away from. When my world was torn apart before my eyes, and I was left vulnerable and damaged, he was sent to protect me. He was hard. He was patronizing. And he was the most beautiful man I’d ever met. Every bone in my body told me to hate him, to despise everything he stood for. But I couldn’t...
  • What If: The Anthology by Chelle Bliss, M. Mabie

    What If: The Anthology by Chelle Bliss, M. Mabie

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    What If: The Anthology is a collaboration from some of today's hottest indie authors. What happens when one pivotal moment in a story changes? Have you ever wondered how things might have been? In these eight, never before released, novellas you'll see what happens when your favorite characters take a different path. A twist on the fictional reality you've already read...
    Categorized as:
    alpha male  contemporary  dark  bikers  length-long
  • The Price of Honor by Aleatha Romig

    The Price of Honor by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    THE PRICE OF HONOR: The making of a manFrom New York Times bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes the haunting story of love and honor. An epic tale of devotion and sacrifice spanning thirty years, bidding the characters, as well as readers to ponder the questions..
  • PowerHouse by Chelsea Camaron, Ryan Michele

    PowerHouse by Chelsea Camaron, Ryan Michele

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    No one denies me. Especially her. She dismissed me. That was her first mistake. She thought I was a nice guy. That was her second. She had hope. That was the final straw. I am Onyx Blake. I’m a powerhouse in an ugly underworld only found in her nightmares. She’s going to learn quickly, I’m not the man to let anything go … Including her...
  • Respect by Aleatha Romig

    Respect by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Respect - An Infidelity series Novel “The making of a man” An EPIC mafia love story not to be missed. From New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes a stand-alone novel, a spin-off from her beloved Infidelity series...
  • What Grows Dies Here by Anne Malcom

    What Grows Dies Here by Anne Malcom

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “You will be loved many times by many men. But you will only ever love one man. And that man will be your destruction.”Wren Whitney lives a beautiful life. She is a child of Beverly Hills, growing up in boarding schools, on private jets—a life of extreme wealth and privilege.Wren Whitney lives for adventure. She is afraid of nothing. She says no to nothing...
  • Inescapably Yours by Lizzy West

    Inescapably Yours by Lizzy West

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Coming Soon! We are overjoyed to invite you to the event of the She’s found the dress. He’s chosen the perfect ring. The venues are swathed in candles and flowers. Now, all that’s left is for these happy couples to make it down the aisle and say ‘I Do’...
  • Bella by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

    Bella by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Not all women are made of sugar, spice, and everything nice.Some are forged in fire, willing to go to war for the ones they love.Bella is prepared to walk through the flames of hell and battle the devil himself when her man’s life is on the line...
  • Hawke by Anise Storm

    Hawke by Anise Storm

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Previously published in 2019, "Hawke" has been updated with a new POV and some expanded scenes. Arrogant. Sexy. Reminiscent. I felt all three about my newest client. The moment I met the sexy club owner in need of a party planner, I soon realized why. He was the one responsible for the most mortifying night of my life just one year earlier...
  • Talking Dirty by Cheryl McIntyre

    Talking Dirty by Cheryl McIntyre

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    I had no idea when I met Linken Elliot that he would be capable of doing this to me. I was perfectly unhappy, living my miserable existence before he came along. I was fine humping strange men’s faces in dirty bar bathrooms. I was comfortable living like a hermit and drinking myself into oblivion. I. Was. Fine. Now I want things. I want him...
  • Hollow Hearts by Anne Malcom

    Hollow Hearts by Anne Malcom

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Don't judge a book by its cover, that's how the saying goes, right? It's meant to stop people from judging others based on appearances, first impressions. Because people are often a lot more-or usually, lot less-than they appear. That is not the case with me. What you see is what you get. What you see a club whore for the Sons of Templar MC. Big tits, blonde hair, pretty face. Not much else...
  • Fighting Lust by Jennifer Miller

    Fighting Lust by Jennifer Miller

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Ryder “Playboy” King is what everyone calls me, in and out of the octagon. I’m fine with being known as a Playboy. I’ve turned it into an art form. A big smile, charm, and a little flattery - and my needs are easily met. Besides, giving a shit can get a man hurt – I’d rather get in and out in one piece. Enter Tessa Jameson. One fiery lust filled moment with her, is not enough...
  • Fearless by Michelle St. James

    Fearless by Michelle St. James

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Book two in the series that began with RUTHLESS. Angel Bondesan can't decide if Nico Vitale is the worst or best thing to ever happen to her. But it doesn't matter. Because it's over. Back in the small town where she was kidnapped, Angel grieves for her father and tries to put her feelings for Nico behind her...
  • Drawn to you by Ker Dukey

    Drawn to you by Ker Dukey

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Warning, this is book 1 of 2. This is a new adult romance which contains explicit sex - 18's only. Antonia McNally has a great family, a great boyfriend, and a great future… until she finds herself interrupting a robbery and becoming the victim of a ruthless criminal. When she witnesses brutal murder, abuse and suffers her own traumatizing assault by his hand, her life changes forever...
  • Heaven Hill Series Box Set by Laramie Briscoe

    Heaven Hill Series Box Set by Laramie Briscoe

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Get the first four books in the best-selling Heaven Hill series in one box set. Book #1 – Meant To Be Single Mother Denise Cunningham meets her match when Heaven Hill VP Liam Walker convinces her to do a job for the club. Once she’s in, she’s not sure if she’ll ever want to get out...
  • Misappropriate by Kathryn Kelly

    Misappropriate by Kathryn Kelly

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Megan 'Meggie' Foy Caldwell is finally getting everything she’s dreamed of, a child, a husband, and family (of bikers) that would truly do anything for her. Her life is finally on the right track. When Meggie asks her husband, Christopher 'Outlaw' Caldwell, MC President of the Death Dwellers’, for a church wedding, he agrees because keeping his new found love happy is everything to him...
  • Cole by J.B. Hartnett

    Cole by J.B. Hartnett

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Cole Carlyle, successful hotelier, has lived his life on his own terms. Burned by a gold digging ex-wife, he never expected to find his soul mate in Anika “Inky” Redding. Anika Redding, talented artist, overcame her past to live her life free of shame. Betrayed by people she thought she could trust, the last thing she expected was to find true love in Cole Carlyle...
  • Pocketful of Sand by M. Leighton

    Pocketful of Sand by M. Leighton

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    “She’s beauty for my ashes. And I’m hope for her heartache.”—Cole Danzer. I don’t know what makes a great love story...
  • Hell's Ink by Nicole Reed

    Hell's Ink by Nicole Reed

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    WARNING: This book is not suitable for children under the age of seventeen due to language, sexual content, and intense subject matter. In this Brotherhood you live or die by the three-piece patch. For Hold Dawson, Vice-President of the Hells Highwaymen Motorcycle Club, it’s not just black ink tattooed on his body, but the religion he worships, and the law that governs his life...
  • Chosen by Josie Litton

    Chosen by Josie Litton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    < From NY Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Josie Litton My name is Grace Delaney. I was born into this country’s most admired political family. When I was sixteen, the media dubbed me “America’s Princess”. I hate being called that, all the more so since I discovered the terrifying secret hidden behind my family’s glittering public image...
  • Under the Stars by Tia Louise

    Under the Stars by Tia Louise

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    *Book #2 in the "Bright Lights" CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE Duet by USA Today bestselling author Tia Louise. All around us was darkness and night... I'm not a hero. I'm a survivor. I had one way out, and I took it. Now all I want is peace, A place to pick up the pieces and start over. But she wants justice. Names on a list, faces in the crowd...
    Categorized as:
    alpha male  suspense  dark  contemporary  m-f
  • Twisted Sinner by Rosa Milano

    Twisted Sinner by Rosa Milano

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A dark mafia...
  • Savage Hunter by Rosa Milano

    Savage Hunter by Rosa Milano

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A dark mafia...
  • Puck Prince by Mariah Wolfe

    Puck Prince by Mariah Wolfe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Do you think I can't hear you?" he drawls.Oh, God. I just got caught mid-O......by the hot neighbor next door.This wasn't exactly how I planned to make new friends in Houston.Getting locked out on the balcony sans pants right afterward?Even worse.But I was stuck and had no one else to ask.And my hot neighbor was more than willing to assist."If you need a helping hand, princess..
  • Puck Princess by Mariah Wolfe

    Puck Princess by Mariah Wolfe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Owen would destroy anyone who hurt me.Which is why I can't tell him the team's new rookie did exactly that.Life should be perfect.I'm engaged to Owen Sharpe.We're having a baby.And my career is finally back on track.But there's one The rookie player everyone's calling the future of the Houston Scythes?He's the man who destroyed my life once before.And now, his father is buying the team...
  • Southie by Courtney Dean

    Southie by Courtney Dean

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Boston Irish Mafia Interracial RomanceLiam “Southie” Daugherty grew up in the Irish working-class neighborhood of South Boston, Massachusetts, also known as Southie. The son of a policeman with a drinking and gambling problem and a pill addicted schoolteacher mother who was nothing more than a punching bag for his Pops, Liam never had the best outlook on life or love...
  • Peacock  (The Faults Of Our Sins) by Esther E. Schmidt

    Peacock (The Faults Of Our Sins) by Esther E. Schmidt

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Going in blind is a rookie mistake. With my years of experience, you would think I should know better by now. I'm always the capable one that can handle anything that's thrown my way, until Karma throws me off my game. My Karma comes in the form of a woman and she has to be payback for all the shitty things I’ve done in my life. Not just any woman but one who is determined to self-destruct...
  • Color Outside The Lines by M. Bonnet

    Color Outside The Lines by M. Bonnet

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rhett Williams was the gorgeous, popular baseball player everyone fawned over. Most saw him as charming, but I knew what a monster he could be. He tormented me every day and made me hate everything about myself, my body most of all. Yet I fell for him anyway. One day, he went too far, breaking me beyond repair...
  • Those Boys Are Trouble by Willow Winters

    Those Boys Are Trouble by Willow Winters

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Five steamy, contemporary romances. One collection. AMAZON TOP 100 best selling series available in one collection for a LIMITED time! Those Boys Are Trouble includes all five of the full-length, stand-alone romances from the Valetti mafia series featuring filthy-mouthed, possessive bad boys, HEAs and no cliffhangers...
    Categorized as:
    alpha male  contemporary  dark  bdsm  mafia  length-epic
  • THE BIG BAD'S CLAIM by Erin Havoc

    THE BIG BAD'S CLAIM by Erin Havoc

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    My ex isn’t the man I thought he was.And knowing that might get me killed.So, I escape the clutches of one evil into the arms of another.The Waywards Motorcycle Club might be my only chance at survival.I do the one thing every desperate soul in town does.I throw myself at their mercy, and I beg the merciless captain for help.Blaise is big, burly, and violent...
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